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ARTIST
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Outside Over There
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CATALOG #
UTR 175LP
UTR 175LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/28/2025
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Heavyweight psychedelic improvisers EarthBall are back with their third and most monstrous record to date: Outside Over There. Born from the haunted basements of Nanaimo, Canada, the quintet thrives on spontaneity, shaping improvisation into jagged hallucinations and ecstatic eruptions. Recorded live-off-the-floor in 2024 in Jeremy, Izzy, and Kellen's basement, and mixed by drummer John Brennan, Outside Over There is an album that feels both summoned and inevitable. Each track lands with uncanny purpose, as if uncovered rather than written. The opener, "100%," features a cameo from comedian and English icon Stewart Lee, who lent his blessing for the band to use a fragment of his stand-up. The album was mastered by John Dieterich (Deerhoof), with liner text contributed by longtime comrade John Olson (Wolf Eyes). EarthBall's trajectory has been relentless. Their 2024 album It's Yours was praised by The Quietus as "fully aggressive and fully life-affirming." The band's live double set LP Actual Earth Music Vol. 1 & 2 (2025) captured blistering performances: a performance opening for Wolf Eyes at the Fox Cabaret, and a Café OTO improvised throw-down featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford. Outside of EarthBall, each member carries their own torch. Jeremy Van Wyck, founding member of the legendary Shearing Pinx, has toured extensively, released over 100 records, and has been a vital force in the Vancouver and West Coast underground for the past 25 years. He and Isabel Ford (Izzy) play together not only in EarthBall, but also in Psychedelic Dirt, Shearing Pinx, Behaviours, and Crotch. John Brennan collaborates widely, including with Endlings, Evichen (Victoria Shen), Francesco Fonassi, Plan Your Future, Brennan/Corsano duo and Physics with John Dieterich. Kellen Maclaughlin performs with KVMP and Ora Corgan, while saxophonist Liam Murphy is a west coast staple, playing with the best across Vancouver Island and the mainland. On three of the tracks of Outside Over There, the band is joined by their comrade Justin Patterson. This cross-pollination fuels EarthBall's sound -- a collective improvisation, psychically overdriven, and grinding into bloom. Outside Over There is more than an album though, it is a ritual, a gathering of sound at the forest's edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity.
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